As we approach the 11th Annual Boys’ and Men’s Titanic Dinner, I thought this quote was significant:

“What is it that guides the soldier’s hand, and nerves his arm in battle, but the anxious desire to defend the near and dear?” - Sam Houston, in a speech given November 25, 1841

As quoted from Madge Thornall Roberts, Star of Destiny: The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1993), p. 64.